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Over the course of five voluminous issues, Calque published a tremendous set of translations of new and archival works with an emphasis on the transformative poetics of translation as a creative act. In an editorial introduction to the first issue, coeditor Brandon Holmquest notes: “We queried a prominent academic in the field [of translation] who, in response, assured us that the kind of journal we were planning ‘doesn't, and can’t, exist in English.’ This was precisely the motivation we required.” During its blazing two-year run, Calque shot like a star through the dark sky of literary translation in the United States. Drawing from a global range of experimental poetry, Calque distinctively includes extensive translators’ notes preceding translations published en face with the original texts. The complete run features over fifty translations from dozens of languages — many of which appear in English for the first time — as well as a rich series of essays, reviews, and interviews on translation.